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Team GorillaNerds

Couple of stubborn adventure racers who believe suffering is a skill. Adventure racing, endurance, and stories from the suffer zone.

Chasing Type 2 Fun across mountains, swamps, rivers, and whatever else the map throws at us.

09/01/2026

A little unfiltered clip of our rappelling down the Faxe Limestone Quarry silos around midnight. They appeared to be 20-25 meters high.

Awesome experience.

08/31/2026

08/30/2026

If you don’t know Team GorillaNerds, here’s the important part:

We are not fast. We are not a podium team.
We are not the team people look at and say, “Those guys are absolutely flying.”

We’re more likely to inspire:
“Are they… okay?”

Our specialty is suffering.

We spend most races somewhere between this is hard and this was an objectively terrible idea.

The legs stop cooperating. The brain stops doing math. The food stops tasting like food. Every hill looks personal. Every kilometer feels suspiciously longer than the one before it.

And eventually we reach that magical adventure racing moment where you dig deep, searching for another gear…

…and discover there are no more gears.

So you downshift into something best described as aggressive survival and keep moving anyway.

That’s pretty much the GorillaNerds philosophy.

We aren’t trying to prove we’re the fastest people out there.

We’re trying to prove that when things get miserable, uncomfortable, exhausting and downright stupid…

we’re still going to be there.

Maybe slowly.
Possibly complaining.
Definitely eating something questionable.
But moving.

And somewhere along the way, finishing stops being about speed and starts being about grit.

No matter how bad it gets, we believe we are going to finish.

Not because we feel good.
Not because we’re having a great race.
Not because there’s anything left in the tank.

But because quitting simply isn’t part of the plan.

If we have to walk, we walk.
If we have to crawl, we crawl.
If we have to take five minutes, collect ourselves, fight back tears, eat something terrible, and then start moving again…

we start moving again.

We embrace the misery and face our demons. We break ourselves down to the most fundamental version of who we are. There are tears. There are spiritual moments. There are moments when the race strips away every excuse, every comfort, and every bit of bu****it and leaves you with one question:

Are you going to keep going?

For us, the answer is always the same.

Yes.

We’ll show up, embrace the suck, reach deep when there’s nothing left, laugh at how terrible everything has become, and keep moving until somebody tells us we’re done.

Because when we start something, we intend to finish it.

It may not be pretty.
It may not be fast.
It may involve a truly unreasonable amount of suffering.

But we’ll get there.

That’s our kind of racing.

🦍🤓

Team GorillaNerds
Not fast. Just incredibly difficult to make quit.

08/30/2026

Just a little clip of our sunset ride last night. Where we were we still have no recollection we were so exhausted. Let's just say close to a beach in Denmark 🇩🇰😎

08/30/2026

WE FINISHED!

About 177 miles in a little over 40 hours!

So much to unpack, and not enough time to process it all. After we rolled in at some early morning hour, we got a shower, crashed HARD, up early to repack gear, awards, and get loaded on the bus to Copenhagen Airport which we're on now.

For a couple of Alabama boys, Denmark was no cake walk and it didn't disappoint. Running alongside two awesome race veterans (Nick Hurff and Caitlin Thorn) who towed us around Denmark was the experience of a lifetime, and this one definitely tops the list of our short 18 month Adventure Racing tenure. Can't wait to see what the future holds!

Stay tuned. We'll be unpacking stories, pictures, and videos as soon as our brains and bodies recover. 💪🏼

08/27/2026

Full race maps in the post below if you want to follow along.

08/27/2026

Pre-race briefing.

08/27/2026

We passed all of our ropes and swimming tests!!!💪🏼

Bikes are all set with our seats, pedals and other small creature comforts. Now we're headed to dinner 😁

08/27/2026

Quick shout out to my (Stew Mills) friends at Trek Bicycle Auburn for the Trek Aelous Elite seat. This may be an Orbea (rented) but I put a little Trek stamp on it for the race to keep my bo**ie happy 🚴‍♂️😀.

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http://www.sufferculture.com/, https://m.youtube.com/@Team_Gorillanerds

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